Blog post #995 - since 01/02/2003
for larger europe zoomed map http://url.ie/ajz
this is the overseas MW sound RTE do not want you to have and it is available now.
1 transmitter 4 programmes stereo sound text & pictures - but no DAB is better - no its not - meanwhile RTE are pumping licence money into the GAA as sponsorship.
RTÉ closes MW after 82 years on Easter Monday details from RTÉ
photo taken Cobh. County Cork
“Droichead nua Átha Luain is ea é, droichead idir na Gaeil in Éirinn agus Gaeil in imirce”
“It is the new bridge of Athlone, a bridge between the Irish in Ireland and the emigrant Irish.”
Taoiseach Eamon de Valera officially opened Radio Athlone 06/02/1933
from the pages of the Irish Emigrant
15 years ago this week from December 28, 1992: Negotiations on the
formation of a new government had been suspended for Christmas; I
tried to explain Irish politics for the uninitiated; Dick Spring gave
evidence to the Beef Tribunal; and there was extensive media coverage
of the estimated 400,000 emigrants who had returned home for
Christmas.
link: http://url.ie/7pe
Willie O’Dea hosts the first programme on the new Dáil channel, TD TV
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its no surprise my favicon & fav icon of screen is Grace Kelly. September 14th 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of her untimly death in a car crash in 1982. [biog] [news] [book]
Dr Karl & Dr Dish
Karl Kruszelnicki & Christian Mass
91 years ago this month 19,240 British Soldiers died on day one of the Battle of the Somme. 58,000+ US soldiers died in the Vietnam War and millions died from the other side. This makes the Iraq war numbers of dead look small. My grandfather was in the Battle of the Somme, and made it home to Ireland. 10 million+ dead in WWI; 62 million+ died in WW2. stupid men go to stupid wars. I am no historian, but it must have taken a lot of support from the allies over the years to let fascism rise in Europe before war seemed a sensible solution to the power hungry leaders of the day.
Did the CIA prop up the Iranians they liked? did they deal with Sadam? did they fund Osama and the mudjahadeen ? YES. Cash for weapons food for oil or cashing in on investments.. war is dirty.. but the ’stupid’ men were up to their necks in it long before Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
charlotte greene age 4 (front row seated 2nd from right) gets her certificate, graduating from play school
